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[Frilock]

The bravest guy on any Apollo mission was the one who opened the CM hatch!

Weren't they the frogmen though? Keeping those scuba masks on for the rescue

 

[TheShuttleExperience]

I wonder how the Apollo 8´s CM smelled like after splashdown.

Any manned system is quite smelly. Some astronauts call it the smell of space. But you only realize it after landing once you breathe fresh air, and especially the guys that welcome the crew after hatch opening. What I found interesting was the description of Mir's smell once you entered: like an oily basement What's also interesting is the smell of an airlock after repressurization as it releases any particles that settled before. Some descripe it like a mixture of metall and meat/food leftovers...

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1593748568564764674

Yet, NASA has this in their youtube channel

https://twitter.com/x/status/1593977249870778370

https://twitter.com/x/status/1593985275499118592

 

[GLS]

I guess in NASA, ITAR means damage:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1593742697965277185

 

[Urwumpe]

Another good NASA tradition of the first launch of a NASA rocket on LC-39 always being too powerful for the launch complex...

 

[NukeET]

They can't use something as good as Orbiter. People would blame them for faking the moon landings again.

Six Words

xkcd.com

 

[N_Molson]

Any manned system is quite smelly. Some astronauts call it the smell of space. But you only realize it after landing once you breathe fresh air, and especially the guys that welcome the crew after hatch opening. What I found interesting was the description of Mir's smell once you entered: like an oily basement What's also interesting is the smell of an airlock after repressurization as it releases any particles that settled before. Some descripe it like a mixture of metall and meat/food leftovers...

Apollo XI was quarantined, so I'd say the recovery crew followed NBC protocols, more or less

 

[GLS]

Less than a day now...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1594351182390198272

 

[TheShuttleExperience]

I would expect HQ images/videos of the first mission to the Moon with a manned system in the 21st century, 50 years after the last visit. Especially of the Earth. I hope there is more to come...

 

[GLS]

Almost there....

https://twitter.com/x/status/1594613568971763714

https://twitter.com/x/status/1594442120735121408

Live coverage in about 30 minutes:

 

[GLS]

Nice views of the Moon... too bad NASA still hasn't figured out the meaning of "aspect-ratio", and is streching the image...

 

[GLS]

Wow, there are we all in that image...

 

[Urwumpe]

What an epic view

 

[GLS]

The "Earth-set" cool... I guess reality has better graphics than Orbiter.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1594669095253086208

 

[GLS]

AOS! There we are again!

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1594678255679934466

 

[Arvil]

Didja smile?

 

[jarmonik]

Really nice view there. Hope to see it some day...

 

[Arvil]

Seems some of the Cubesats aren’t working, perhaps because the batteries are dead. They should consider something like USB charging ports while the launcher is on shore power.

https://forums.space.com/threads/na...hed-10-cubesats-heres-how-theyre-doing.58766/

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Seems some of the Cubesats aren’t working, perhaps because the batteries are dead. They should consider something like USB charging ports while the launcher is on shore power.

https://forums.space.com/threads/na...hed-10-cubesats-heres-how-theyre-doing.58766/

USB-C format, certainly